Measuring device for shot-pouches



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MEASURING bB IGE FOR SHOT POUGHES, PDWDEB. YFLASK'S, &c. No. 276,690. I PatentedMay 1,1883.

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UNITE STATES PATENT GFFIC HENRY T. HAZARD, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

MEASURING DEVICE FOR SHOT-FOUCHES, POWDER-FLASKS/dc.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 276,690, dated May 1, 1883. Application filed February 14, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom tt may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY THOMAS HAZ- ARD, of Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of Galitbrnia,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Out'Offs or Measuring Devices for Use on Shot-Pouches or PowdenFlasks, of which the following is aspecification.

Heretofore the cut-offs used on shot-pouches consisted of a lever on either end of which is attached a cut-off, which lever is pivoted in its center to the tube which contains the shot,

and is operated by the thumb, as shown in Figure5of the drawings. Thismaunerofoperating a cut-off is objectionable in this, that the moment it begins tocut ofi' the shot or powderin the tubeabove, the lower cut-oft'commences to retreat and open the channel below,

thereby permitting the contents to run out before it is entirely out off above; hence it the lever is operated slowly a larger quantity is permitted to pass out than it operated rapidly, and if the upper end of the lever should be suspended when one-half the way in,then the lower cut-off would be arrested while one-half out; hence a continuous opening is permitted clear into the pouch or flask, whereby an unlimited'quantity of shot or powder might thus be deposited. This position of the lever is shown in Fig. 5. It is the liability to do this that has rendered this character of a cut-off so dangerous as to prevent its general use as a cut-off for powder. It is further objectionable as a shot cut-otf, because as the upper. end of the lever enters the tube containing the shot it may be arrested by contact with the shot, thereby permitting the lower cut-oft to move out, and hence the charge cannot pass out. This will frequently occur when large shot are being used; and if the shot is small, then the objection of having too much shot pass out at each charge, or in irregular quantities, will occur. By my improvement here shown those defects cannot exist, as the upper cut-off will have entered completely into and cut 0d the channel above before there is any opening whatever below, so that whether operated slowly or rapidly thesame amount is deposited at each movement of the thumb, and if, in entering, the upper cut-off should be arrested by the unyielding substances-so ch as shot in the l measuring-tubetheu the cut-oft below will instantlyrecede and permit the charge to pass out, and at no time is therc'an opening clear through the measuring-tube. The novel manner in which this is effected will be apparent by means of the accompanying drawings- Fig. 1 being side view of my improved cutoff in its natural position while at rest; Fig. 2, position when the upper cut-0d has advanced and dividedthe charge. and before the lower cut-off is opened, a perfect charge, being now contained in the measuringtube between the two cut-offs; Fig. 3, a top view, and Fig. 4 a modification, of same, Fig. 5 being ordinary shot cut-off now in common use; and Fig. 6 is a front and side view of the cut-off E.

In the drawings, A is the flask, pouch, or other reservoir; B, the measuring-tube; I, the operating-lever; F, the upper and E the lower cut-off; D, the operatingwhich will return the lever to its natural posi tion. The thumb piece is at the point on lever marked 0. H of Fig. 4 is a spring that bears down against the lower cut-off, E, and keeps same closed when at rest; and H of same figure is a spring, the recoil of which keeps the upper cut-ofl', F, open when at rest. Said springs are rigidly attached at the points indicated by screw-heads. The lower cut-off, E, has a hook, N, mounted object of which is to prevent the cut-01f from receding clear out of the measuring-tube, and at same time to leave a complete opening therein. This book is shown in detail in Fig. 9. A uniformity of openings in the measuring-tube is thereby secured.

In the ordinary lever cut-oil" the outward movement of the lower cut-off, E, is only arrested when the upper end of the lever, which is beneath the thumb, comes in contact with the measuring-tube or other fixed stop for that end of the lever, so that, as the charge is to bedecreased or increased, the lower cut-off is correspondingly broughtcloser to or removed farther from the center, where the lever is pivoted, and as it approaches the center it does not open so far as it does when farther from the center. Therefore it is not uniform in the opening through which the substance to be measured passes.

The advantages here shown will render these spring, the recoil of' on its free end, the i devices invaluable in loading cartridge-shells with powder and shot in place'ot' the open scoop now in use.

What I claim is- 1. The shot-charging device consisting, substantially as shown, of the operating-lever I, terminating on either side of the measuringtube, as shown, to which are pivoted the cutoff gates E and F, in connection with the spring D, which holds the lever in position, the slotted measuring-tube B, having a uniform diameter leading directly into the shotreservoir, the cut-off gate E being pivoted to the lower end of the lever, and the gate F being pivoted to the upper rear end of said lever, and on which end is formed a thumb-piece, O, the cut-off F having a stationary passage-way at the mouth of the shot-reservoir, in which said gate works transversely to the measuring-tube through which it passes, forming a fulcrum for the lever I when the gate stops by reason of its contact with the inside of the tube, or of the substance therein, whereby the channel above is completely closed before the channel is opened below.

2. In a measuring device or cut-off having a tube to contain the substance to be measured, the combination therewith of the lever I, having thereto attached the cut-offs E and F and the spring D, the cut-ofl'E being provided with a hook or stop, N, projecting from the free end thereof, substantially as described.

3. In a shot or powder measuring device or cut-off, the combination, with the measuringtube B, ot' an operating-lever so constructed 7 that 'the ends of said lever terminate on oppo-- site sides of said tube, and to either end of which lever is pivoted a cut-0E gate, and the spring D, whereby as the said lever is operated the upper cut-off closes the channel above be- 40 fore any'openin g is permitted below, substantially as and for the purpose described.

4. The measuring-tube B, having slots to admit the cut-off gates E and F, in combination with the lever I, terminating on opposite sides of said measuring-tube, the cut-off gates E and F, E having the stop or lug N affixed to the free end thereof and pivoted to the lower arm of said lever, the cut-off gate F being pivoted to the upper arm of said lever andforming a fulcrum for said lever, and having stationary guideways arranged at the mouth of the pouch or flask for its reception and operation, and the spring D, substantially as and for'the purpose shown and described.

5. In a shot or powder measuring-device or charger, the tube B, containing the substance to be measured, having slots onopposite sides HENRY T.'HAZARD.

Witnesses:

H. T. GAGE, L. M. STRATTON. 

